Re: Post tubal ligation syndrome.

From: AllanHo@aol.com
Tue Oct 23 13:35:08 2007


In a message dated 10/23/2007 12:09:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, johnprov@sympatico.ca writes:

Not available in Canada yet, you americans get to be the guinea pigs every time. I did the google thing, subdermal implant, I do not think so, has class action AKA norplant written all over it.

They claim 2.5 million implants have been placed in 30 countries since 1998 - so I hardly think anyone is a guinea pig at this stage. I never placed Norplants when they were available, but I did remove many poorly placed ones. The Implanon seems to be an improved system. And in order to avoid poor placement of the implants, the FDA requires individual hands on training by the company before one can place them. As Mirena is becoming more popular, fewer and fewer patients are associating it with the Dalkon Shield debacle. May be the Implanon will catch on like the Mirena too?

Allan

(Financial disclosure: I don't own stocks in either company that makes Mirena or Implanon.)





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